From the very first page of Susan Minot’s latest novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, has sex on her mind. The scene opens with her in the bath, thinking about ...
In her tenth novel, Elizabeth Strout brings together familiar characters, Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess from her previous books and follows their lives in Crosby, a small town in ...